Looking for some essential lit on Christian Pacifism , hook me up senpai
>>7637178
The idiot
The Kingdom of God is Within You - Tolstoy
>>7637180
seconded, probably the best on the subject desu senpai
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What does /lit/ think about Moby Dick?
I've just finished reading this book. As a non-native speaker, I still can't appreciate what I've read. The style made me struggle a lot.
The best English language novel.
yeah I thought the digressions about ships and whaling were distracting. it's argued that they are what makes the book brilliant. I really enjoyed moby dick...but maybe could've enjoyed it even more. the overall notion of Ahab's decent into madness bc of moby dick is amazon in itself.
>>7636937
>amazon
????
autocorrect got me. I meant amazing.
English class is here, and I haven't done the summer reading. Assuming all of these are shit. Which one is the least bad?
I've only heard of A Thousand Splendid Suns t b h
It all looks like minority-written garbage included to satisfy Marxist diversity dogma. Do your brain a favor and read something else.
bel canto
everything else is SJW/identity politics bullshit, only propped up cause the author is a minority
How well does /lit/ think a sci-fi adventure about MC searching through a hellish wasteland filled with lovecraftian horrors for the only person he ever cared about, (his best friend, no homo though) eventually finding him but ended up killing his friend out of rage because the friend has been changed by the wasteland and no longer recognizes MC, would do in today's fantasy market?
depends on how well it's written and marketed.
fwiw plot sounds potentially entertaining, in my shamelessly pleb opinion
>>7637577
I've been working on this idea for 3 years now, but I want to perfect my writing before anything gets finalized.
I have no idea how to market it though.
>>7637567
I assume you're familiar with The Night Land, William Hope Hodgson's influential and imaginative tale of a man searching through a hellish wasteland filled with Lovecraftian horrors for the only person he ever cared about (his wife, no homo)?
Unfortunately it's incredibly difficult to read. Nobody has ever figured out why Hodgson decided to write the whole thing in pseudo-Elizabethan prose, and Hodgson is too dead to answer.
Still, you must give it a shot. If you can't handle the prose, read John C. Wright's Awake in the Night Land short story about a man searching through a hellish wasteland filled with lovecraftian horrors for his best friend (no homo).
Man, this was depressing as fuck. I thought Tolstoy was supposed to be a Christfag. Only thing close to that was the sublime physical death.
>>7636466
He discovers Christ at the very end, about when his son touches his hand
It touches authenticity-derived morality, a very common theme in christian-existentialistic thougt.
>>7637636
>authenticity-derived morality,
How are the two related?
Let us all decide who is the superior Juvenile pleb-tier author!
Will it be the Shut In Shit Lover, Pynchon?
Or will you choose the Sincere Kamikaze DUDEWEEDLMAOer!?
WHO WILL WIN?
YOU DECIDE!
http://strawpoll.me/6667477 forgot this part!
you want the ladies to laugh at you? vote!
THE PYNCH IS PULLING AHEAD, YOU DON'T WANT HIM TO WIN DO YOU? VOTE VOTE VOTE!
Is Lysistrata a feminist landmark or misogynistic trash?
>>7638366
It's accurate is what it is.
>he reads the acknowledgements
>frogposter hasn't killed self yet
This is the ugliest of frogs by far and it keeps being posted, deliberately flaunting its abandonment of frog rarity rules. I do not like it.
>>7638317
>trashing neo-pepe
Leddit is down the hall and to the left
I read Around The World In 80 Days back when I was in highschool, and though it was a bit boring sometimes it was classy as fuck. Right now I'm buying a gorgeous collection of Verne's books.
What does /lit/ think of this fine gentleman?
I only read half of 20000 whatever Under the Sea. One of the most boring books I've ever read. Felt like Linnaeus' Systema Naturae.
Maybe the fact that submarines are so trivial nowadays fucked my judgment.
He's prodigious. So prodigious I want to read him in the original French.
>>7637933
Aren't all english translations utter crap?
I thought we could use a thread to list all the nice pages we've stumbled upon during our searches
Please remember to add a short description following the link because some of us don't have the time to figure out these Clinton-era layouts
>http://modjourn.org/
The Modernist Journals Project, website dedicated to the study of modernism and contains digitalizations of some relevant books, essays and journals from the 1890-1922 period, including some classic stuff like The Masses
>http://bluemountain.princeton.edu/index.html
The Blue Mountain Project, dedicated to the digitalization of Avant-Garde periodicals in many languages
>http://hgar-pub1.bu.edu/web/partisan-review
The entire Partisan Review collection, from 1934 to 2003. A great lefty magazine that published stuff from Orwell, Bellow, Dwight Macdonald, Sidney Hook and all those dudes.
>http://sagadb.org/
The Icelandic Sagas available for download
>http://omacl.org/
Database of medieval and classic literature
>http://monoskop.org/Avant-garde_and_modernist_magazines
Monoskop in general is great for the study of arts and the humanities, and it contains a very useful Index of avant-garde and modernist magazines in many languages with download options from external websites (most of which should probably be mentioned ITT as well)
I'm still working my way through my bookmarks, so I'll post more later if this thread doesn't sink with 0 replies
>>7633189
I love you anon. Thank you!
>http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/
"Who Speaks for the Negro?" was a book by Robert Penn Warren containing interviews he conducted with a number of civil rights leaders and participants like Malcolm X, MLK and Stokely Carmichael. What makes it interesting IMO is how he asks them about a variety of topics including Lincoln, Jefferson, cultural appropriation, if reparations following the Civil War would have worked, and so on. Vanderbilt made this website that contains those interviews in text and audio, correspondence between the participants and RPW, etc.
>http://oll.libertyfund.org/
Libertarian website that contains the works of thinkers from Ancient Greece to today. I always find good versions of the writings of 18/19th century liberal & conservative thinkers here, including some stuff I don't see on Gutenberg and other public-domain websites.
>http://econphd.econwiki.com/notes.htm
Econ students might find this useful. It's a compilation of links of online lecture notes by economics professors separated by topic (microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, etc.) I bet at least half of those links no longer work though
>http://whomakescentspodcast.com/
Maybe this thread will work better if I don't include podcasts and online lectures so I don't know if I'll post more of those, but this is a bretty good podcast on the history of Capitalism made by two academics.
Did this fucker like any other writer at all?
>Last name, first name. Dislike him. Adjective, adjective.
John Green did it first. Nabokov cribbing again.
yes???????
http://wmjas.wikidot.com/nabokov-s-recommendations
>>7636213
he liked Joyce to an extent
are there any philosophy books/writings that have had a profound effect on your view of life?
Lucretius
The Discourses of Epictetus
We have this thread twice a week.
>your body is a genetic extension of previous humans whom you lived as
>every time you are born, you do not remember who you are or why you exist in the first place
>you have a natural yarning to discover yourself, the reason behind this existence and how to stop this never-ending cicle of life and death, pain and pleasure, this torment
>after many incarnations without answers, you learn you can never truly die because you'll be reborn again and again for unknown reasons
>why are you punished with eternal torment? What crime have you committed that you are sent to experience this tiring cicle of life and death, of pain. Whom do you blame when there is noone?
>Maybe you were more important than you knew. So the only question is - why are you doing this to yourself? Why do you still believe you can be separated from something when that is just being insecure?
>your laughter fills the cosmos
Tips fedora
not /lit/
>>7638194
had to ejaculate somewhere
What are some good books that end in redemption?
I really loved how Crime and Punishment ended, with Sonya redeeming Raskolnikov. Love, God, and the simple life triumphing over ruthless ego.
like half the western canon? everything that's labeled a comedy?
go read ulysses
I have been around writing forums for a while.
All I see is hate. They call it "criticism", but it's all hate.
All of those forums are stuffed with unsucessful "writers" who can't contrustruct a half-decent story.
They of course have tried "sefl-publishing" to deny the fact that their drafts will be rejected if they ever send them to agent or publishers.
They hate the world for not recognizing their "talent"
The bitterness, the hate accumulate, day after day, week after week, then month, then years. Still they haven't sold any copy at all. They mountained up, but still can't crush the little ego of the hater writers.
Denial, they failt to escape denial. Instead, they go deeper. Obviously, this world can't recognize their "talent". That doesn't mean they don't have "talent" (in fact, they don't). So, they secretly label themselves as "undiscovered writers" and think that they know it all about writing; and that their style, their structure, their emotion, idea and underwear are the best of all. If Hugo and Kafka are somehow zombified and returned from the death, they will hail our "undiscovered writers" as the savior of literary world.
But the hate is still there because they haven't sold any copies.
One day, another "writer" pop up and post something like "Should I writer like this...". The "undiscovered writers" immediately jump into the thread and vent their hate on the foolish who asked. They call it "stupid","nonsense" of course with other formal words to conceal their bitterness and to pretend to be polite. But the hate is so thick that it clogs in their word like a stinking zombie rat that refuse to go away.
I hate these hater so much that I spend 15 mins of my life to write this shit up, just like they hate this world so much that they spend hours and hours touring the forums, posting hate and hate non-stop.
Writers, if not sucessful, will become haters. They hate the world, hate other people's style, hate climate change, hate dog, hate cat. They love themselves so much that they hate themselves.
What is the point of asking how to be a successful writer in a shithole full of unsucessful writers and polite haters. I just don't understand.
if it took you 15 minutes to write this then you'll probably never be a successful writer :)
>>7637131
fuck you, hater.
>>7637126
You write like a Brazilian
>What is the point of asking how to be a successful writer in a shithole full of unsucessful writers and polite haters
There isn't one
